Unholy Tanking Spec & Click Macro - updated for 3.3

[Stealthy]

My macros are based on 5 clicks per second - so you may need to adjust for yourself as Pinot did.

Regarding Rune Strike, Incebound Fort & Bone Shield:

Rune Strike - I have this bound to its own key, although would be easy enough to macro it in since it's a 'next melee' attack. Probably have something like /cast !Rune Strike in each of the above macros.

Icebound Fort - I also have this bound to its own key - because it has a long (2 mintue) cooldown, I like to choose when pop it - either as an 'oh shit' button or proactively to when you know you've got a big hit (or stun) incoming.

Bone Shield - Short cooldown (1 minute) but costs an unholy rune, so I have it bound to my buff macro (which I use before combat). During combat I have another macro that uses blood tap:

/cast Blood Tap
/cancelaura Blood Tap
/cast Boneshield

Blood tap activates a blood rune and converts it to a death rune (which supplies the rune you need for Bone shield). Note - you only want to pop this when both blood runes are on cooldown, otherwise it will screw up your rotation.

So for a prolonged mitigation buff you can do something like - Bone Shield (wait for cooldown to finish, then start combat) -> pop dodge trinket when Bone Shield drops -> pop 2nd Bone Shield when trinket effect drops -> pop Icebound Fort.

Cheers,
S.

[alcattle]

I was reading in other forums that you should put Diseases up before your DnD? Something like IT adds threat to DnD? Maybe I got things backwards, I will find a link if there is a need.

[Noids]

This is important if you are unholy dps and you are supplying Ebon Plague to the raid. As a tank I think it is more important to get DnD down as soon as possible so you can frontload threat. If you are after maximum dps then definitely ebon plague is the priority, but you will develop threat slightly more slowly due to the delay in DnD. After your first rotation everything will equalise anyway.